Pessimistic social media posts may now be targets of a fresh crackdown by the Chinese government.
  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    101·
    5 days ago

    … Lord knows that’s going to help depressed people…

    “Literally everyone is happy but me! There’s obviously something wrong with me.”

    Much health, very help, wow.

    • manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml
      36·
      5 days ago

      The BBC reporting like "netizens in China may soon find posts hidden when sharing content like “life is pointless and we should all kill ourselves” " and people in this thread read that as “the CEECEEPEE is Banning people for being SAD”, yep cool, the usual then?

      and here I’m banned from a significant portion of lemmy.world for telling people to not post racist and misogynist bullshit

      • TheAvarageNerd@lemmy.world
        61·
        5 days ago

        I’m especially glad how this government campaign focuses on a clearly defined terminology that differentiates between trolly doom posting and affected people in a bad situation just expressing themselves online. It’s great how they don’t just use subjective terms like “negative content” or “sensationalized” or “trivial” , and then straight punish platforms for posts fitting these very wide terms. Cause you know, platforms definitely won’t be overly careful with what they allow, when there’s a threat of actual punishment. This is definitely a well thought out campaign, that’s well thought out to take care of some unfortunate citizens.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 days ago

        Nah, when the same sentence has other Chinese people being played by a blue/grey cartoon character it’s pretty clearly just targeting one person for being a chubby authoritarian doofus. Casual racism against Chinese people just because they’re currently stuck with a shitty government is a problem, but I know I’m not doing that here.